"O woe is me, because it is fated that Sarpedon, most dear to me of men, shall be subdued by Patroclus, the son of Menoetius. But to me, revolving it in my mind, my heart is impelled with a twofold anxiety,[530] either that having snatched him alive from the mournful battle, I may place him among the rich people of Lycia, or now subdue him beneath the hands of the son of Menoetius."
[Footnote 530: Cf. Virg. Aen. iv. 285:--
"Atque animum nunc huc celerem, nune dividit illuc, In partesque rapit varias, perque omnia versat."
x. 680. Ter. Andr. i. 5, 25. Ovid, Met. vii. 19; x. 373. Plato, Rep. iii. p. 433, B. ed. Laem. finds great fault with Homer for thus debasing the character of Jove. His remarks are reiterated by Clemens Alexandr. Protr. p. 16, 50, and Minucius Felix, Sec. 22.]
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